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they should invent a staying up late that doesnt guarantee less sleep

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40,000 years ago, early humans painted hands on the wall of a cave. This morning, my baby cousin began finger painting. All of recorded history happened between these two paintings of human hands. The Nazca Lines and the Mona Lisa. The first TransAtlantic flight and the first voyage to the Moon. Humanity invented the wheel, the telescope, and the nuclear bomb. We eradicated wild poliovirus types 2 and 3. We discovered radio waves, dinosaurs, and the laws of thermodynamics. Freedom Riders crossed the South. Hippies burned their draft cards. Countless genocides, scientific advancements, migrations, and rebellions. More than a hundred billion humans lived and died between these two paintings—one on a sheet of paper, and one on the inside of a cave. At the dawn of time, ancient humans stretched out their hands. And this morning, a child reached back. 

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Stay with me by Romário Roges

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another prime lancelot moment is when guinevere walks out of his line of sight so he can’t see her anymore and this upsets him so much that he almost throws himself off a building

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hot take apparently but i think it's good for white people to relate to poc's art. i think it's good for straight people to relate to queer art. stop acting like we're different species who could never possibly understand each other what the fuck is wrong with you

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Thinking about him (the soldier in Poynter’s Faithful Until Death painting watching an apocalypse unfold around him with horror in his eyes as he tries to keep himself standing beneath a doorway, based on an actual 19th century archeological find of a man in full soldier’s garb under a doorway at Pompeii)

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Streamers say 'mods' the same way a medieval lord would say 'guards'

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Blood stone by Grady Frederick

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sea, swallow me

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“What is it like to be a prophet? Everywhere Cassandra ran she found she was already there.”

— Anne Carson, “Cassandra Float Can” (via atreides)

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Just learned about history. Appalled

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adding a big chunk of p.133-134 of Achilles in Vietnam : Combat, Trauma and the Undoing of Character by Jonathan Shay because I feel like we kind of forgot, with a lot of retellings showing Achilles and Pat under a softer, kinder, modern light that they were very much products of their time and that their time was absolutely barbaric to women.

Patroclus was described as kind and his death saddened pretty much everyone, the Greeks, the Gods, but also the Trojans. In The Iliad Priam himself recognised he was a good man and good fighter, but Pat being well known and well loved doesn't mean he was better than other men regarding women and we need to accept this. (he had female slaves !!! at least one, named Iphis !!! TSOA is a cool lil story but if i see one more post about them being good to women i am going to commit tax fraud in their name !!)

(also, be well aware they were not real people that existed but are characters and archetypes in a story that is around 3000 years old.)

Been thinking on and off lately about how Briseis says Patroklos never let her mourn her husband (nor the rest of her dead male family members Achilles killed).

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"In the Iliad, when Patroclus does not allow Briseis to mourn for her husband (nor for her three brothers and her city), we may see a reflection of the spirit and aim of such legislation. In this context, Patroclus prevents Briseis from mourning her dead not out of compassion but out of a concern over the disruption her lamentation might bring to Achilles’ camp. While Briseis had no surviving male relations on whom she could call to avenge her losses, her words alone could be unsettling and a source of fear. This is the motive for Talthybius’ warning to Andromache in Trojan Women, that if, in her lamentation, she should anger the Greeks by hurling curses (ῥίπτειν ἀράς) at them, the army would not allow her son to be mourned and buried (734–736). Briseis’ desire to mourn her losses was great. Patroclus had to warn her repeatedly. Note emphatic negation and the iterative tense: οὐδὲ μὲν οὐδέ μ᾿ ἔασκες. After he is slain, Briseis does what Patroclus had prevented her from doing: she mourns for her husband, her brothers, and her lost city, insinuating her personal losses into the lamentation for Patroclus. The restraint that Patroclus had placed on her seems cruel in this context, despite Briseis’ statement that Patroclus had always been kind (μείλιχον) to her."

(From Briseis and Andromache Enslaved by William Owens on the Kyklos Project)

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when i see people express sentiments like this, my thought is pretty much “who exactly are you trying to prove a point to?” the democrats? if trump gets elected, they’re going to be completely sidelined if not worse and will be entirely focused on trying to get back in power and i can tell you they will NOT be moving further left. netanyahu? it’s a BETTER outcome for him if trump wins since trump is SIGNIFICANTLY more pro-israel than biden has ever been. the people in gaza? they need a ceasefire which has been rejected by both the israel and the hamas sides multiple times and a trump win WILL NOT make that a stronger possibility.

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hadal ‘love language' robe

Embroidered onto the sleeve is an Arabic love poem by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. It reads: قالوا: تموت بها حبـاًً، فقلـت لهـم ‏ألا اذكروها علـى قبـري فتحيينـي English translation: They asked “Do you love her to death?” I said “Speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life.” All proceeds from Hadal’s ‘Love Language’ pieces will be donated to Palestinian aid organisations.

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Baba Yagas hut an old 2021-ish etching that I lost all prints of, so I had to print some extra ones recently

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"Baba Yaga’s Little Book of Hut Maintenance", by Anastasia Kashian Smith